Posted on 02/07/2018 7:34:58 AM PST by Liberty7732
Unfolding events in Washington, D.C. are leaving a lot of Americans wondering where they can turn in such a deeply corrupted, self-absorbed government to get justice and protect the republic. There are actually a few options in these new and uncharted times, and at least one would be groundbreaking.
But first, here’s the corruption we now know was going on in the Obama Administration and during the presidential election:
➜ The Obama Administration clearly weaponized the most fearsome of government agencies, the Internal Revenue Service, against individual Americans and American companies who were political opponents of President Obama. The targeting of conservative and Tea Party groups by the politicized Internal Revenue Service was an explosive scandal that somehow most of the media dozed through, disinterested in pursuing. Democrats worked to obfuscate and dilute the scandal and at that point, the media woke up and helped in reporting the talking points. And all this began after a top IRS official admitting exactly what they had done. And yet, no consequences. Not one person lost their job or a penny of income.
➜ The Fast and Furious gun-running scandal to Mexican cartels was bad enough. But then Obama Attorney General Eric Holder took another step in corruption by so completely refusing to cooperate with Congress, that he was found in criminal contempt. Holder was the first member of a president’s cabinet in history to be held in contempt. Democrats of course circled the wagons and protected him while the media played it as nothing more than partisan “political theater” — helpfully using Holder’s phrase. Nothing ever happened to Holder as the White House played defense for him.
➜ There are half a dozen other major corruption scandals during the Obama years that would warrant mention but have already been meticulously covered by the conservative media. The mainstream media is happy to blather about the most scandal-free presidency in history. The point is made that during those eight years, there were several scandals for which there was never an accounting. And of course, there is no oversight (and cannot be any oversight) of the media, even a dishonestly partisan media. That’s the First Amendment.
➜ In December, Politico published a strong piece of investigative journalism that was not only astonishing in the news it broke, but was robust with sources. The story exposed how the Obama administration had secretly dumped U.S. law enforcement efforts to nail a drug-trafficking ring run by the terrorist group Hezbollah. Hezbollah is an ally of Iran and one of the reasons the country is considered a terrorist nation. Killing the American action was done to placate the Iranians to help get the awful nuclear deal in place. But the same formula applied. Democrats played defense and the remainder of the media ignored. Like, really ignored. Several days after the Politico story, neither ABC News, CBS News or NBC News had done one second on the story. Major newspapers ignored it, also. Good for Politico, but a pox on the rest of them. Of course, no consequences from this horrible betrayal of us and our ally, Israel.
➜ This brings us to the most recent breathtaking revelations of high-level FBI corruption during the 2016 presidential campaign and after President Trump’s inauguration through coordinated actions with the DNC, a British spy and Russians to deceive a FISA judge repeatedly to obtain eavesdropping warrants on members of the Trump campaign. This one continues to unfold, but even considering how bad some of the others are, this is the worst and most dangerous if it is as it looks to be. And it looks very much like leading portions of the FBI, we know some but we may not know all, were actively working with one political party and a foreign power, through a Washington opposition research firm, to influence an American election and later undermine the winner of that election.
This level of corruption is a direct assault on our democratic republic, on the freedoms enshrined in the Constitution and on the American people.
Based on the ongoing revelations in the growing dirty laundry list, and on Americans’ dwindling sense of trust in our own government, a basic question arises:
Where do the American people go to get justice?
This is actually really difficult to answer. The frontline agency that should be tasked with the investigations is the FBI, which is part of the Department of Justice within the presidential executive branch. But the FBI, or some parts of the FBI, are compromised and so entrusting the agency with an investigation that includes and centers on investigating itself, seems like a non-starter.
• The obvious possibility is appointing one or more Special Counsels to investigate the investigators. This has the inherent downside of relying on the FBI as the investigative arm, plus they are constitutionally dubious and it would be cast as just Trump politics. Still, it is a possibility.
• Another possibility is that perhaps a special task force from the federal government’s various Inspector Generals’ offices could be created and augmented by private investigators who obtain the proper security clearances. Or Congress could create a task force itself using private investigators in the same way.
Or, perhaps there is at least one more option.
• A consortium of states. This goes old-school Constitution, but originally, the idea was that the federal government would be kept in check by the various states, to whom it was beholden.
In Federalist 39, James Madison wrote regarding the approving the Constitution:
“It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority of the people themselves. The act therefore establishing the Constitution, will not be a national but a federal act.”
This view, representative of the founders, was that the states had the authority and responsibility to check the federal government. Of course, it has been turned on its head, but compared to most countries, the individual states making up the United States still hold considerable autonomy and authority.
If multiple federal agencies, including the leading investigative federal agency, are corruptly infested, then really the only outside solution lies with the states. They could create a unified investigative task force, obtain security clearances through the White House, conduct in-depth, investigations using their own and Congressional subpoena powers and bring charges to the Department of Justice to decide if indictments were warranted. There could potentially be dozens of states with the political gumption to undertake this.
This is way outside the box. But probably not unconstitutional. We are in uncharted territory and the house needs to be cleaned. It might be just the solution needed.
But regardless of the direction taken, the American people can no longer stand to the side and watch the country be undone by a mischievous, nefarious deep state working against the nation’s interests. Such corruption cannot stand.
Isn’t this what Mark Levin has been touting for years?
I’d like to see things get sorted out without going to this option. But I think you can’t count on anything and we should be preparing with this Plan B just in case.
Very interesting...
Another option is to water the tree of liberty.
And how does this get around a DOJ which is itself corrupted, part of the soft coup, and will not indict any of their allies in the attack on Trump.
It may be the only option, DC is so corrupt they installed an ineligible usurper and BOTH parties cooperated.
The Constitution was dead on Usurpation Day.
I thought it was called a Convention of States (COS).
This has been discussed, thoroughly, for years on this forum.
(Also, just curious as to why an author is never listed, in your posted articles, Liberty7732.)
You don’t need a special counsel for justice. You need to have an honest (and alive) AG who will get grand jury indictments against Traitorobama and the members of his kakistocracy for giving aid and comfort to the enemy. No plea bargaining. Try, convict, sentence, and publicly hang them. That will be justice.
The real interference and collusion and crimes were committed by Obama, Hillary and the FBI. Having an FBI guy, Mueller, investigate anything is a travesty and misses the mark, fox guarding hen house.
Since we see how the corrupt deep state is resisting, it may be the only option. I hate to think about it, but I think the corruption is so all encompassing, that if there is a better way to clean it up, I would like to know what it is.
One place the public can’t turn to apparently is the one agency that should be responsible....DOJ.
Thanks. I like your suggestion.
Didn’t Texas’ AG go after Barky, over several issues??
Here’s an interesting article (I know, it’s the lib Texas Tribune) on cases TX has filed against former 0 admin...along with the Win/Loss status.
https://www.texastribune.org/2017/01/17/texas-federal-government-lawsuits/
But....if the AG’s of MANY (Repub) states would hold a convention.....hmmmm.
I learned a new word today. Thanks! d;^)
The corruption and scandals are so numerous, it would take an army
of investigators to work them.
The OIG staff of 500 is not large enough to do the work. Not even close.
First I heard of this word; made a note of it.
<>(Also, just curious as to why an author is never listed, in your posted articles, Liberty7732.)<>
Unless stated otherwise, I’m the author of my squibs. I also footnote my sources.
That is always an option.
Our revolution is among the few in which the victor, like our George Washington, didn’t replace one tyranny with another.
But, after almost all revolutions the winner legalizes his authority. So, if we watered the tree of liberty and won, we’d still have to come up with a written framework of government.
Rather than roll the dice in violence, we can peacefully, through Article V, correct the accumulated errors.
What if the FBI were disbanded as a federal agency, and replaced by a different organization that was populated by the states themselves? Each state would delegate a number of investigators to serve at the pleasure of their home state, and this body would become a federal investigative bureau.
As is with the militia, the Constitution provides for calling up the militias for national service, but the officers are selected by the states. It might not be a stretch to declare that state militias have investigators as a component, and then use the militia clause in the Constitution to call up the state militias' investigative arms for federal service, with state appointed officers.
Each state can create a branch of their militia as MPs, or detectives. These people would report to militia officers appointed within each state, and then these militia branches (officers and detectives) would be called up by the Commander-In-Chief to serve a national priority, under the authority of state officers, not federal bureaucrats. The state officers will report directly to the Commander-In-Chief.
This is all just top-of-mind, and I can use the help to flesh out this idea. How might it work? What are the barriers?
-PJ
Great column. While I support a COS regardless of the outcome of these scandals, I think a joint House/Senate committee, (just like the one for Richard Nixon) to investigate the high crimes of Obama and his people is the best way to go.
Wouldn’t it be sweet if Hillary was subjected to the same body that she worked on, and was subsequently fired from for her abject corruption?
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